The Pennsylvania Poultry Federation Revives Through a United Voice An Old Organization The Pennsylvania Poultry Fed- ficighl rates* .<ncl opei.ition.il eration is an old organization, costs, and on and on. but it was revitalized two yeais it all adds up to maintaining ago a r a lesult of a task foice and impioving a healthy and group which was determined to dynamic mdustiy—by making it bring the vanous segments of possible fm each individual in the poultry industry together in the indusliy to piofil fiom a a thi't'-d Voice. ’ United Voice As one indusliy- Thr T.egiated approach was m an put it, “The organization chost n tiecause all the pioblems helps keep the monkey off the of inriu,duals within the indus- faimei’s back ” tiy aflest the cntue mdustiy And so.utions to any one piob- Achieving a United Voice has lem ht’p tveiyone in the indus- been costlv It cost some money tiy It’i one less pioblem to be but it has cost even moie in faced i-om day to dav as the in turns oi manhoms of work by dustiy moves ioi waid in solving laige numbeis of egg and broilci othei pioblems pioduceis and allied industiy- The Pennsylvania Poultiy Fed- nien Except foi a small stall to datum j- now using its United takc car( - of tlj > to opcia- Voice lo piomote egg sales, to tional details, this woik has all piotect ;nc industiy fiom injui- been volunteei ions It gelation, to advance and The l:e\ man in the day to day piomo'i poultiy disease re- opeiation is Homei Bickslei,the seaich, to maintain leasonable Fedeiation’s full time executive Importance of Framingham Study And Cholesterol to Egg Industry In lerent yeais eggs and othei Boaid (PENB) piovides the fol farm pioducts, including daily lowing up to date summaiy of and meat products, have come what cholesteiol is and what is under attack by vauous gioups known about it in relation to cholesteiol Eveiy cell in the human body Much of the basis foi this at- reeds cholesteiol foi the life tack, which centeied heavily on functions If excess cholesteiol eggs and caused some house- is eaten, it is disposed ot as body wives t© cut back on the use of waste If insufficient cholesteiol eggs, was the preliminary report is eaten, the body will manufac ol some medical lesearchers m tine it Massachusetts This preliminary report of the so-called Framing- The body can conveit fats and ham stiitty found a iclationship proteins, as well as carbohy between diet, particularly cho- Crates, including sugais and al lesteror, and heait disease cohols, to cholesteiol - But the final Framingham re- Cholesterol has been indicted poit, released recently show's the some groups in the seaich foi lesearcn doctois found diet has cause > or causes, of heait little or nothing to do with cho- disease Theie have been many lesterol ouddups and heait at- P° sl t' lve statements made about the iclationship, but scientifical- This repoit is impoitant to the *v absolute, mfoimation is lack egg industry because eggs, pai- ln § ticulariy egg yolks, aie the high- Much reseaich is underway est ip cnolestei ol of any of the P lo blem is baffling, but it noun all. ea'en foods 411 foims Wl 'f s °f ve( f thiough leseaich of animal piotein foods—meat, facts not theoues milk aic eggs—aie nch in cho- 11 appeals that “stiess,” lack of lesteroi as well as ammo acids, exeicise, obesity, overeating, ex vitamms and minerals cessive alcohol, genetics, “duve,” In a recent information bulle- an( f im P 1 diet aie all indi tin, the Poultiy and Egg National Cc d e d as souices, causes, 01 at . least, contribute to coronal ics mm m • M M So far the theories are fai amjmgMMt'/'MMtm more numerous than the facts » v&MmmHmtw M 3 The question of the “alteied mm g I# egg ” f re( iuently auses. By feed- AiU mmjij* m I# MM ing the hen, it was possible to Mw&mmUmMM 3 W alter the ratio of saturate to un * saturated fatty acids. The claim Henunck Wentink of Miller & was not made that this alteied Bushong, Inc , Rohrei stown, has the cholesterol content. These been elected vace president of eggs weie produced and pio the Northeastern Poultiy Pio- moted in a few select markets on duceis Council (Neppco) the West Coast, but due to a ... , , premium of 12 to 20 cents pei Wentink is general manager dozen they have not captured a of marketing and faun opera- ftjgh percentage of the maiket tiona at MiLer & Bushong He The b asic problem with eggs ha» be-n active in Pennsylvania an( j cholesterol appeals to rest poultiy cncles foi many yeais wuh some five to eight per cent Neptco duectois, meeting in of the people who are concerned Cincinnati last week, elected w dh cholesteiol Too many per- Bumsrii Wainei of Union, Ohio, sons bslicve that a diet prescub as Neppcos new piesident ed foi one who suffeis from high Warner was vice piesident foi blood cholesteiol should apply to the past two yeais and he sue- a Si'oat many people This is not ceeds Alb°it Russo of Wood- 1:1 !* e , , „ , ville h I who had seived thiee Uffld moie facts are known, ea j 3 human nutritionists recommend a balanced diet, including the Han.- Metz of Belleville, Pa, valuable souices of animal pio was cho-en secietaiy and James tern—meat, milk and eggs C Weisel ol Rosemont, N J Eggs, meat and fish constitute was u-elected tieasuiei one of the four basic food Named Neppco diiectors gioups Dauy foods make up a based on nomination fiom then second The othei two aie fruits slates weie Roland Hastings, and vegtables. and biead and Lain el Del, Edwin Cook, Feed- ceieals mg H.-ls, Mass, David London Foods from all four gioups are Someise:. N J, Cliffoid East- necessary to make up the bal man, lacon a, N H, and Ray anced diet lecommended by nu- Wilhnr.s, Wolf Summit, W Va tntiomsts secrclaiy Bicksler woiks out of an oflice on Route 322 near H.u nsburg Me is assisted by one full lime and two pail time sec ictanes With ne.ulv cyery successful tiade 01 gamzation, Bicksler said, “it’s always a comp.u atively small gioup which puts the time and eneigy to make it woik If it woiks, it suppoits and helps even one in the industry ” Bickslu noted th.d m=t to at tend executive committee meet ings alone, one membu comes Donald Horn, immediate past president of the Federation, speaks to a crowd at Her shey in 1969. Consumer Education Committee Has Diverse Program, Reaches Millions The highlight of the activities of the consumer education com mittee of the Pennsylvania Poul try Federation this yeai was the Omelet King’s visit to Lancaster County aid Dutch Da, s in Her shey The activity resulted in favor able publicity to millions of pei- The incubator, with some chicks in the process of hatching, was a popular feature with the city crowds at Dutch Days this year. Lancaster Farming. Saturday. November 7.1970 Comes 200 miles to Han isbuig fiom Western FennssKania once ,i month Bickslcr figutes it takes this man about 12 hours ol tia\el and meeting time If the time isn’t even considoied the cost for this man at a modest estimate ol eight cents a mile is considei able ($32 louncl tup), Bickslei noted Othci execulise committee should suppoit his tiade oigam membeis tiavel 100 miles /ation and local hie company, •'Some aie highlv paid cxeui Bickslei explained lives whose time is quite valu- Reiei img to the Fedei ation he able Yet, the\ ieel thin woik Cont’nued on Page 23) scns by wav of the nation’s mass media (see separate stoiy) But the consumer education committee was also involved in many othei important, though less widely publicized, activities during the past year The Federation, thiough the education committee, distubuted to Life m the Fedeiation is impoitaol to the mduslrj," Bickslei said. The same tjpe of thing exists with the local volunteei fire com pany, Bickslei noted Just a fevr prisons piovule the time and eneig> to make it woik But because the tiade organi sation, like the fue company, benefits e\ci\one, e \ e i >o n e 14,000 pieces of PENB promo, tional mateual By helping Mt piotect the industry’s standing in the consumei’s mind and by actively encouiaging the con sumption of poultry and egg products, this type of piomotion benefits everyone in the industry, accoidmg to Eail Hess, educa. tion committee chairman The commiti.ee has cooperated, with the place mat program. Undei this piogram, the Federa tion helps pay the cost of print ing place mats which feature eggs The place mats aie then distnbuted by local gioups, such a> the Lancastei County Poultry Association, to local lestaurants. The Fedei ation originally bought 50,000 place mats and i-ecentl\ all but 5,000 had been distubutcd Homei Bickslei Fedei ation ex« ecutue secietan is paiticularly pleased With the pi ogress made b> the Lancastei County Poultry Association in the place mat pro« giam ‘The Lancastei gioup is filed up.” Bickslei said, and he pioiects a potential distribution manj times gieatei than that achieved so tai in the early stages of the pioject Bickslei and some individual egg pioduceis have expressed (Continued on Page 26) 17
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